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For anyone who has ever dreamed of finding true love only to discover that happy endings are just the beginning comes this brilliantly comic novel about marriage, ex-girlfriends, ‘performance anxiety’, and what it takes to make happily ever last beyond the honeymoon.

William Walker has just married Isabel, the girl of his dreams. The happy couple live in a small flat in north London while William labours away at his magazine job, revelling in his recent promotion from a column for which he was required to taste different brands of cat food to more dignified reportage. So far, so perfect.

But William has a Bridget Jones-ish knack for messing up the happiest of situations – he can’t help shouting at the obnoxiously precocious work experience girl and has an embarrassing tendency to forget names of women he has previously tried to sleep with. It doesn’t help that Isabel’s creepy best friend Alex is very obviously in love with her. Nor that Saskia, a vixen-ish old flame of William’s, has just moved in downstairs. As Alex slithers his way into Isabel’s heart, Saskia seems intent on resuming relations with William – or at least giving Isabel that impression.

Increasingly beset, increasingly unlucky and increasingly hilarious, William battles his way through a series of comic disasters that threaten to destroy his relationship and reduce him to a state of sad bachelorhood – a fate, he soon realises, worse than death.

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‘Hilarious and hugely enjoyable’ Tracy Quan

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‘Hilarious and hugely enjoyable’ Tracy Quan

William is a happy man. He has just married Isabel, the girl of his dreams, and is confidently sailing along on a sea of wedded bliss. He’s got a hot wife, a snazzy new job and things couldn’t be much better. Sure, there are a few bumps in the road, but life on the whole is good.

That is until Isabel’s ‘best friend’ Alex starts to intrude on their wedded bliss. And when William’s ex-girlfriend Saskia – aka the ‘Destroyer of Relationships’ – appears on the scene, things go from bad to worse. For marriage, William quickly discovers, has its own set of rules. And while falling in love is easy, staying in love can be a whole lot trickier…

Witty, irreverent and laugh-out-loud funny, “William Walker’s First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story” is the perfect novel for anyone who has ever wanted to know what the person they’re facing at the altar is REALLY thinking – and been rightly afraid to ask.

Top customer reviews

William Walker is a whiny, self-pitying, passive-aggressive loser, who believes his wife is too good for him because she's pretty. His wife is a horrible, demanding shrew. Frankly, in many ways they deserve each other, but I kept reading in the hope that they would not, in fact, end up together. Their friends and other supporting characters are thin caricatures of people who would never exist in real life. Everyone is an awful person. Two stars because the writing is decent.

Funniest book I've read in a long time. Only problem was I was on a flight and kept laughing out loud. Three people actually asked for the title. I hope they enjoy this book as much as I did. Hope there is a second year of marriage

As other reviewers have said, this is Bridget Jones for boys. William is about to turn thirty, has just married the girl of his dreams, is up for promotion at work and nothing can go wrong - can it?

Rudd has a casual and light way of writing that slips down very easily. This does feel like a series of magazine columns strung together rather than a full-blown novel, and the attempt at plot falls rather flat as the story strays into seriously demented territory.

That aside, William's musings on love, marriage, work and general 'boy stuff' are funny if not completely fresh. I enjoyed reading this, and it had me giggling out loud at various points. Recommended for when you need a light and easy feelgood read.

This book is told in diary form by William, who has just got married to the woman of his dreams, Isabel. The diary starts on the day he marries when he still believes that nothing can go wrong. Over the course of the next year, a lot goes wrong and it makes for a fun and light-hearted read. It did make me laugh out loud a few times, mainly due to William's turn of phrase as much as what actually takes place in the book.

Downloading this book for Kindle after seeing it in the bestseller list on the store and looking for some light night time reading. I wasn't to be disappointed. This book is entertaining, laugh out loud funny well laid out and easy to read. It's no masterpiece though treat the book for what it is and you won't be let down and you won't be getting much sleep either instead staying up all night to read it!

What a funny, funny book. I have spent the last day and a half ignoring my children, dodging the housework and laughing till I've almost wet myself. Matt Rudd is a very funny man. Am off now to buy everything else he has written.

This is a super easy, fast read, very amusing because the couple living together scenarios are so true to life you won't know whether to laugh or wince. If you like reading Mil Millington you are also likely to enjoy this. Really, anyone would have to have a serious sense of humour failure not to find it funny.